Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
VOLTAIREThe human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
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I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
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Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.
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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.
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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.
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Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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Let us cultivate our garden.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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Minds differ still more than faces.
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